Did Anyone Use a 7.62X54R ?
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Topic: Did Anyone Use a 7.62X54R ?
Posted By: Adobe Walls
Subject: Did Anyone Use a 7.62X54R ?
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 12:41
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Howdy. Did anyone use a Mosin in 7.62x54R this year? I just never got far enough along with my load development or sighting with my 1944 carbine to even give it a real trip to the deer woods. Neighbor kid carried it for a couple of days due to the family being a bit short on rifles, but he only got a running shot at a deer that he probably should have passed up anyway from the sound of the story. I know that the Prvi Partizan 180's I've got are brutish in the muzzle blast and recoil dept. 150 grain .311 Sierras and IMR 4064 appear to hold a bit more promise of compatibility in such a stubby barrel. Has anyone got any load data to share for this cartridge? AW |
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Posted By: CB900F
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 12:52
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Adobe; Good to see you! No, I don't have anything chambered in that, but surely someone around here does. 900F ------------- Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 13:13
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Hi AW, Shooting my Mosin regularly but the surplus ammo is just too cheap and more than accurate enough for iron sight. Only rifle I own that I don't reload for. Maybe at the gun show if I could find some bargain on RCBS dies I might start. Probably consider light loads with cast bullets. Hunted with the 375 and the 260, but killed most deer with a crossbow this year. BEAR |
Posted By: Triggerguard
Date Posted: 18 December 2006 at 15:40
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Haven't used one this year, but I've taken several whitetails with the 7.62x54R, and so has Number One Son. Don't have my records in front of me, so I won't give exact details, but the bullet is Remington's bulk Corloct, 180 grain .311 (actually .3105) RN, over IMR-4895. Groups run about 1 1/4 inches at 100 yards thru a pretend sniper with a 3x PU scope. All one shot kills, at 125 yards and less. ------------- "...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke |
Posted By: The_Mountaineer
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 02:19
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Don't own one but wouldn't mind having one. I suspect they're pretty good as a deer caliber. If memory serves me right, they're somewhere between a 308 and the good ol' 06 in ballistics. Both of which are awesome deer calibers. ------------- Paritur pax bello - Peace is obtained by war. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19 December 2006 at 12:38
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Only dowside is difficulty mounting scope. My eyes are getting beyond open sights (does this gun really have a front sight???) BEAR |
Posted By: NH_Hunter
Date Posted: 20 December 2006 at 10:56
Oh, Bear, you must be talking about that metal sliver they shove into teh dovetail in the front  . I have a mosin, but don't think it will go hunting. Sights are pretty bad and the safety isn't a good design.
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Posted By: Triggerguard
Date Posted: 21 December 2006 at 00:35
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Sights are pretty bad and the safety isn't a good design. No, you just need to learn how to use them. Bear has an excuse, he's a bit older. You have the type of young eyes those sights were designed for! Poor sfety design? If it is that bad, why did Winchester and a lot of others copy it and use it on various "boy's rifle" type .22s? ------------- "...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke |
Posted By: Rockydog
Date Posted: 22 December 2006 at 17:14
I've shot my 2 Moisins for the better part of 40 years. One is a military with the fore and top guards missing. I seldom use it. The other was sporterized some time in the 60s with a Fajen stock and Williams sights. Trouble was whoever did the front sight drilled all the way through the barrel into the rifling. Every third shot would strip the screws and the front sight would fly off like it was an F15 ejection seat. I cut it off to about 20 inches and reinstalled the sight properly but it has fearsome muzzle blast. The mainspring had a coil removed to lighten the trigger pull and make the safety usable with gloves and cold fingers but now it won't reliably touch off surplus military primers, although I've never had a failure with my reloads. The bore on mine is pretty tight, it shot .308 fairly well. I think I've probably harvested a half dozen does with it over the years. Unfortunately the bore is now in really rough shape. My son had borrowed it and packed it in a padded case in the trunk of his car along with most of his personal stuff when he had a 6 month deployment. It sat in a base parking lot for the duration and the entire gun was encrusted in rust when he returned. I've scrubbed and brushed for hours but the best it'll do is 4" groups at 50 yards now. Pits are deeeeep. RD------------- When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson |